Barry Bergman
Praise for Proles:
“A vivid debut … a tough-minded meditation on politics, delusion, and survival in Nixon’s America.”
—California magazine
“A humorous, weary, dark, and oddly tender portrait of a man who wants to join history and instead finds himself crushed beneath its machinery.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Bergman traces a world attentive to labor, place, and the quiet desire for meaning.... [Proles] lives in the external rather than the internal, a choice he handles with remarkable control.”
—Independent Book Review
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles.”
—George Orwell, 1984
Get to know me:
an interview with the author, by the author (tough, but fair)
A few words from, and about, Proles …
(Reading at Book Passage, Corte Madera, California, Nov. 8, 2025)
Video: Liza Gross
Photo: Lowry McFerrin